Ceremonial dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is ceremonial or ritualistic. It is related to and overlaps with sacred dance and ecstatic dance.

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List of ceremonial dances

• Festival dance
• Dance in ancient cultures
  • Dance in ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Rome
  • Indian classical dance
• Ritual dance, Magic/Mystic/Spiritual dance
  • Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
  • Some Basque dances
  • Căluşari
  • Circle dance
  • Corroborree
  • Dances of Universal Peace
  • Kagura
  • Long Sword dance
  • Morris dance
  • Rapper dance
  • Religious dance
  • Ritual dances of China
  • Ritual dances of India
  • Sema, or Whirling dervish dance
  • Sinulog
  • Sublî
  • War dance
  • Weapon dance